Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide an insight into historical processes and the strengths and weaknesses of capitalism. Analysing human societies as complex systems can provide ...

A Shift Toward a Living Systems TheoryIntroduction With a background of contemplation ranging from ancient Greek philosophy ...

In fields ranging from immunology and ecology to economics and thermodynamics, multi-scale complex systems are ubiquitous. They are also notoriously difficult to model. Conventional approaches take ...

Why do we destroy organizations while 'meaning well'?In today's highly complex organizations and systems, the conflict between 'individual/partial optimization' and 'global optimization' stands as the ...

Complex systems may work better when their parts are not perfectly alike. Northwestern physicists found that carefully ...

Chaos evokes images of the dinosaurs running wild in Jurassic Park, or my friend’s toddler ravaging the living room. In a chaotic world, you never know what to expect. Stuff is happening all the time, ...

As summer winds down, many of us in continental Europe are heading back north. The long return journeys from the beaches of southern France, Spain, and Italy once again clog alpine tunnels and ...

This paper proposes a new multi-echelon 4-D chaotic supply chain model (NME-4D-CSCM) incorporating a sinusoidal nonlinearity to better represent uncertainties in supply chain dynamics. The model ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — It’s not easy to make sense of quantum-scale motion, but a new mathematical theory could help, providing insight into the various computing, electrochemical and biological systems.